Word: scoffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There will always be a certain class which will scoff at such journals as The New Student and which will damn them with the stigma of being a pale pink rather than a blood red. And there are times when such a view is justified. As to this particular publication, however, the contrary holds true. In its sincerity and its very real sympathy for the high ideals for which colleges are striving. The New Student has shown itself a valuable addition to the ranks of constructive critics of modern pedagogies...
...floor the Democrats scoffed at these peace gestures-and who could scoff better than Sen. Pat Harrison, the jester from Mississippi? Grinning malignantly at the Republican side of the Chamber, he said: You've had political toothache ever since the November elections and now you are applying every remedy to ease your suffering and your pain." Then he looked at Sen. David Reed of Pennsylvania and said, "Mellon's man Friday"; turned to lame duck Senator Harreld with something about a "tall gusher from Oklahoma...
Injunctions. Vice President Matthew Woll, with his thick black hair bristling defiance of any and all who would stand in the way of trade unionism and its weapon, the strike, stepped upon the speakers' platform, urged trade unionists to scoff at injunctions "like red-blooded men whose rights are invaded...
...York $250,000,000 to replace New York slums with model dwellings, if the city and state governments will supply a like amount. I will raise my sum by dunning 500 rich friends for $500,000 each, to be paid in five yearly instalments. Mayor Walker dared not scoff. Others were impressed...
...psychology must have noticed that there are literally millions of Americans who decline to accept things on faith in the realm of religion, but who do not have the slightest compunction about swallowing the catchwords, phrases, formulas, and slogans that go to make up a creed in politics. They scoff at the miracles of Holy Writ, but are continually looking for the miraculous in government, or what would be miraculous if it ever happened--the conduct of a government according to business principles, for example. Most intelligent people regard as preposterous the idea that man was created from the dust...